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Women in Nontraditional Occupations and Apprenticeships (WANTO)
WANTO Grant Home Page
Since Fiscal Year 1994, The U.S. Department of Labor Women's Bureau and the Bureau of Apprenticeship and Training have awarded over $4.7 million to 26 community-based, union and employer organizations to conduct 37 Women in Apprenticeship and Nontraditional Occupations (WANTO) Act Technical Assistance Grants which fund efforts to develop and implement technical assistance programs to employers and unions so they may recruit, train and retain women in nontraditional occupations and apprenticeships and prevent sexual harassment in the workplace. WANTO funding continues on an annual appropriation basis.
The WANTO Grant Home Page provides information about the WANTO Act, WANTO Grant project summaries, WANTO Grant products (publications, videos, and Web sites), and how to contact grantees.
WANTO Act | Grant Project Summaries | Grant Products | Grantee Contact List
About the WANTO Act
Women in Apprenticeship and Nontraditional Occupations (WANTO)
Act
Public Law 102-530 signed October 27, 1992
The WANTO Act Technical Assistance Grants program was implemented and funded annually beginning in fiscal year 1994. The Technical Assistance Grants are funded through JTPA Title IV-D pilot and demonstration projects. The Women's Bureau and the Bureau of Apprenticeship and Training of the U.S. Department of Labor may award grants up to the annually-appropriated funding levels. The grants are distributed on a competitive basis to community-based, union or employer organizations who provide technical assistance to employers and labor unions to prepare them to recruit, select, train, and retain women in apprenticeship and nontraditional occupations.
Summary of the Outcomes and Materials from Each Grant Awards
Click on each grant awardee to review the project summary, outcomes and products.
(Maine, Vermont, and Massachusetts)WANTO Year 1 - September 1994
Chicago Women in the Trades (Michigan, Minnesota, Ohio, and Wisconsin)
Tradeswomen of Purpose/Women in Nontraditional Work, Inc. (Pennsylvania)
Women's Resource Center of Greater Grand Rapids (Rural Western Michigan)
Wider Opportunities for Women (California, Montana, and Washington, DC)
Women Unlimited
YWCA of Greater Memphis (Arkansas, Mississippi, and Tennessee)
WANTO Year 2 - September 1995
Home Builders Institute (Washington, DC)
International Masonry Institute (New Jersey, Chicago, IL, Seattle, WA and New England)
National Council of La Raza (Arizona and New Mexico)
WANTO Year 3 - September 1996
Chicago Women in Trades(Chicago, Il, Cleveland, OH, Madison, WI and Milwaukee, WI)
Women in Nontraditional Employment Roles (California)
Wider Opportunities for Women (Nationwide)
YWCA of Greater Memphis (eight-state Southeast Region)
WANTO Year 4 - September 1997
Mi Casa Resource Center (Colorado)
Nontraditional Employment for Women (New York)
Wider Opportunities for Women (Nationwide)
WANTO Year 5 - September 1998
Century Housing Corporation's Women’s Employment Program (Los Angeles, CA)
Chicago Women in the Trades (Chicago, IL)
Oregon Tradeswomen, Inc. (Portland, OR)
STRIVE/East Harlem Employment Service (New York, NY)
The Urban Family Institute (UFI) (Washington, DC)
Women in the Building Trades (Boston and Springfield, MA)
Women Work! (Four sites nationwide)
WANTO Year 6 - September 1999
Apprenticeship and Nontraditional Employment for Women (King County, WA)
Centro del Obrero Fronterizo for La Mujer Obrera (El Paso, TX)
Century Housing Corporation (Los Angeles, CA)
Chicago Women in the Trades (Chicago, IL)
Mi Casa Resource Center (Denver, Colorado Springs, Greeley & Fort Lupton, CO)
Nontraditional Employment for Women (NEW) (New York City & Long Island, NY)
Northern New England Tradeswomen (NNETW) (Vermont)
Oregon Tradeswomen, Inc. (Portland, OR)
Resource Center for Women (RCW) (Pinellas County, FL)
Women Helping Women, Inc. (Houston, TX)
Women in the Building Trades (Boston & Lowell, MA)
Women’s Opportunity and Resource Development (WORD) (Western Montana)
WomenVenture with Minnesota Teamsters Service Bureau (Minnesota)
YWCA of Omaha (Omaha, NE and Douglas & Sarpy Counties, NE)
WANTO Act | Grant Project Summaries | Grant Products | Grantee Contact List